Inactivity resulting from lethargy and lack of vigor or energy.
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Examples for "torpor "
Examples for "torpor "
1 This spot was the one point of energy in the universal torpor .
2 The stench was crisply nauseating, with a cold torpor of lukewarm sea.
3 The rest of the afternoon he dozed in a species of torpor .
4 She had recovered from the fatal torpor in the cool night air.
5 The shock had been too great; his deadly torpor deepened into death.
1 He dropped his pen in sudden listlessness , crossed aimlessly to the window.
2 Hildegard submitted with demure listlessness , and soon re-appeared in her walking costume.
3 Next to madness occur the different stages of spleen, dejection and listlessness .
4 So he worked on, no longer in listlessness , but with contemptuous amusement.
5 The childish expression left the girl's eyes, the listlessness left her attitude.
1 The extraordinary torpidity of the surrounding objects gradually affected the persons.
2 Life in the tropics, I take to be a placid torpidity .
3 Oppressed with grief, She continued for some time in this state of torpidity .
4 Do you know that you have roused the torpidity of Clarke at last?
5 It was only a temporary torpidity of the nerves, which I mistook for calmness.
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